American Pickers: Vintage Ford Roger Rabbit Car is Extremely Rare (Season 17) | History — Transcript

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1. 0:02we're winding our way through north carolina  home of the charlotte motor speedway and the
2. 0:06nascar hall of fame all right it's coming  up where better to find a hot rod builder
3. 0:11and a nascar flagman than here we got a bit ah  look at that car i see that the heck is that
4. 0:19danielle wasn't kidding man  he was making his own cars
5. 0:27hello hey you brent yes sir how you doing  doing well i'm mike talked danny on the phone
6. 0:34sir good to see you thank you nice to meet you man  pleasure what the heck is that thing over there
7. 0:41that is a heinz that's cool it looks like it's  coming and going exactly your dad built that
8. 0:47yeah he's an engineer of some sort yeah my dad  was very eccentric he just had these visions of
9. 0:53stuff he mean he would sit around and draw  stuff all the time you know an artist just
10. 0:57sees something and it doesn't and that's what  he did does it run no no it's a project it's
11. 1:03still going it's interesting in it no sir right  now it's a flintstone so you're walking around
12. 1:08you're like look at the front end of that thing  wow that's cool look at the back end that's wild
13. 1:12and then you look inside there's nothing in it  what frame is it sitting on it's some british
14. 1:16right-hand drive it's very reminiscent of the  old concept cars back in the 30s 40s and 50s
15. 1:25this is concept art come to life he always won  an auburn boat tail okay roger rabbit yeah yeah
16. 1:35and he couldn't afford one so he's like oh good  one all of his talents was self-taught he grew up
17. 1:40poor didn't have much money if he wanted something  he had to make it he built his own toys and so he
18. 1:46learned to fabricate it at a young age it's a ford  spitfire chevy it's got the ford edge windshield
19. 1:54yeah what's this convertible it's pieces of  uh spitfire body ford truck hood chevy fender
20. 2:02the rear end is the front end of another car  it's just a hodgepodge of different things
21. 2:07one of his visions you know what this would be  great for what's that like a like a promotional
22. 2:13piece through that you know what i mean like you  could paint a business on the side like we have a
23. 2:17nash in the front of our building that just says  antique archaeology on it you know this car is in
24. 2:23its first phase he didn't get a chance to finish  it so there's a lot of rough edges but at 20 feet
25. 2:30away it grabs a hold of you this is a curb grabber  people got to come by here all the time asking
26. 2:35what the heck this is all the time all the time  yeah they stopped by and asked about everything
27. 2:39here and my mom's tired of having to deal with  them my mom and dad were really close she had a
28. 2:46hard time and it reminds her a lot of him there's  so much of it we need to move some of you know
29. 2:51it's time to move on let some other people enjoy  it well what do you want for something like this
30. 2:58i mean it's like no idea i don't even know it's  a wonder how you'd put a number on it exactly
31. 3:02i could put a price on a 65 corvette  i can look up prices on what lincoln's
32. 3:07go for but custom cars like this how  do you put a price on a one of a kind
33. 3:13what would you feel comfortable  at three thousand yes sir
34. 3:25um how much you think we can get that ship for
35. 3:28frankie that's gonna be at  least eight hundred dollars
36. 3:34where are you going to find another one you know  that's one that's a fact so it's like a big toy
37. 3:40you know i've never bought anything like this  it's a one of a kind it doesn't matter why you
38. 3:45connect with something what matters is that you do  connect with it all right that's what's the beauty
39. 3:52of collecting let's see what it looks like with  the top off grab that side of the top frankie
40. 3:56it's talking to me it's making me smile  and i just can't stop looking at the thing
41. 4:03like i got i got to do this i got  to do this i'd be honored own it
42. 4:07it's got it's got to go somewhere it's got  something's going to happen with this thing
43. 4:11i mean anything that makes you smile this much  you know and maybe that was what he was going
44. 4:17for making people laugh and smile and have  fun this is going to be cool to push this
45. 4:21story forward so people can see what wayno was  capable of even though we didn't finish the car
46. 4:27it still has a very dramatic look to  it you could easily shoot a color on it
47. 4:32yeah you could put their old shots you  throw in uh 14 cans of 14 cans of that green
48. 4:42it's like a day-to-day treasure hunt i'm out there  looking for rusty gold i'm looking for the unusual
49. 4:48and impossible it's back roads it's dumpster  diving it's flea markets it's people's homes